Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918

Isa Blumi

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Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire

A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918

Isa Blumi

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2010

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Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies

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This collection of Isa Blumi’s essays comprises one historian’s attempts at understanding the late Ottoman Empire through a series of studies of Ottoman Albania and Yemen.

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History Regional and National History Arab World

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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
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1. Introduction. Blinded by the State: Revisiting Late Ottoman Social History in the Balkans and Arabia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
2. Finding Social History on the Bookshelf: The Tyranny of Sociological Categories in Studies on Albanians and the Balkans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
3. Redefining Tribal Pathologies, Yemen's undeclared Dynamic beyond the Gaze of the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
4. All was not Quiet on the Southern Front: Yemen's Social Hierarchies and the Role of the Ottoman State, 1911-1918 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
5. Understanding the Margins of Albanian History: Communities on the Edges of the Ottoman Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
6. Defying the State and Defining the State: Local Politics in Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
7. Locating Fragmented Identities in Switzerland's Ottoman-Albanian Diaspora, 1899-1920 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
8. Undressing Malësore Albanians: Rewriting Late Ottoman History through its Material Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
9. Resisting Globalization Through the Eyes of Albanian Muslims: Comparing the Successes of the 19th century to the failures of the 21st Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
10. Divergent Loyalties and Their Memory: Albanian Soldiers in the Great War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197

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https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463225513

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Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire

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